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One US Department of Energy plug-in vehicle charging-station program is geared to turn this country into ... Norway? Not literally, but the DOE's EV Everywhere Workplace Charging Challenge was launched early last year to get more companies to install on-site charging stations in order to increase plug-in vehicle adoption. And while the uptake hasn't exactly caught up the rate of citizens in that notoriously EV-friendly Scandinavian country, the results are pretty impressive.

In short, the number of company "partners" participating in the program has surged from 13 that signed up in January 2013 to about 150 today. Those companies oversee 300 sites that serve more than 600,000 employees. So far, those companies' workers are shown to be 20 times more likely to drive an electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid than the general public. In fact, one in 73 employees working for the participating companies drives a plug-in vehicle, compared to the national average of about one in 1,400 people.

All told, the program currently is on pace to cut annual fuel use by 800,000 gallons, or the equivalent of the fuel used by about 1,500 cars. The program is slated to run through 2018, so there's plenty of time to grow that number further. Check out the DOE's press release below.Continue reading DOE's EV Everywhere workplace charging program is working

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